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Breaking News: Tonight, assassination attempt at White House Correspondence Dinner. Trump safe. Gunman captured

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True. However, in events like this, security sweeps occur well before the day. And all employees are scrutinized in any venue where the president is scheduled to appear.

Plus,there are SS agents secreted throughout the event and sitting at the tables. So,he wasn't going to get far before being neutralized.

And allegedly,this 30 year old gunman assembled his weapon on the property before making their attempt.
One person is in custody. So,if the gunman is dead,as initially reported, after he ran from 50 yards away before being intercepted,then who is in custody?

No,you wouldn't be remiss. The ballroom makes sense security wise. Plus,beneath it is a secure war room or bunker,from what I've heard.

It's being built from donations.Not tax payer monies.
I don't think any Liberal Judge has a right to stop the construction.
Especially if the ballroom is part of a secure facility for the Executive branch.
Keep building. Ignore the Liberal order.

That mindset has been cultivated on America for decades. It's escalating now to this degree.
Interesting timing for a plug for the ballroom project.
 
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President Trump wants to return and finish the event. But it depends on SS and other factors.

This would be the 3rd assassination attempt ,if indeed that was the cause of the shots fired outside the room where the event is taking place.
These false flag psy-ops need to be stop. Someone (important) might get hurt.
 
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Saying this incident was staged and the shooter Cole Tomas Allen is a paid crisis actor, sounds like the sort of conspiracy theory Alex Jones would come up with.
 
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President Trump wants to return and finish the event. But it depends on SS and other factors.

This would be the 3rd assassination attempt ,if indeed that was the cause of the shots fired outside the room where the event is taking place.
The goods begin @50:00
 
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Saying this incident was staged and the shooter Cole Tomas Allen is a paid crisis actor, sounds like the sort of conspiracy theory Alex Jones would come up with.
I not so sure. Knowing Trump's history and some of the stuff he has organized in the past, I don't think it is too farfetched that he could have organized it. Just saying.
 
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I not so sure. Knowing Trump's history and some of the stuff he has organized in the past, I don't think it is too farfetched that he could have organized it. Just saying.
The foundation of that has to be that Cole Tomas Allen is a paid crisis actor or a three-letter-agency secret agent. And the certainty that he and anyone else involved would never spill the beans.
 
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I don't think this is a staged assassination attempt. In fact, I'm surprised there aren't more assassination attempts on US politicians.
Especially one that has such an outpouring of hate speech directed at him 24/7.
 
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I don't think it was staged, but I do think it's funny that the main talking point across the MAGA-sphere (and adjacent territory) appears to be, "This is why we need a ballroom!". Because yeah, that's a logical response to someone trying to kill the President...
 
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Why would it have been at the White House? It's a private event put on by the White House Correspondents' Association (which is the association of White House correspondents, not an association of correspondents run by the White House).
For security purposes since all of the top brass was in the same place at the same time.

If this 9News report is accurate regarding the attendee list:
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And we cross-reference the succession order
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Having them all in a public hotel ballroom (that's not as tightly controlled as the White House property) creates a serious concern.
 
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For security purposes since all of the top brass was in the same place at the same time.

If this 9News report is accurate regarding the attendee list:
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And we cross-reference the succession order
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Having them all in a public hotel ballroom (that's not as tightly controlled as the White House property) creates a serious concern.
A better question is why would they all be there. This is a press event not a government event.
 
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Because it's a Hilton hotel and not a tightly controlled government facility on federal property. I (and I'm assuming many others) have had my firearm on me in several hotels, if they don't have clear conspicuous signage prohibiting it, and it's a state that honors a person's CCW permit, there's not much preventing it. (and you know there's some people who probably don't even have permits who end up carrying their firearms because unless someone spots it, it's a relatively anonymous thing in most cases)

Whereas, on White House property, there are metal detectors and much stronger security and screening measures.

I would be remiss if I didn't mention...having a dedicated indoor event space on White House property (where it's tightly controlled who gets in and out) could, in theory, prevent such "wild card scenarios" from being as big of a concern.

Given that we're trending in the direction of people saying "to heck with it, I'll just take a shot at someone if I disagree with them politically", perhaps that ballroom thing for special events wouldn't be such a bad idea.
Almost like this could have been the plan all along.
 
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President Trump wants to return and finish the event. But it depends on SS and other factors.

This would be the 3rd assassination attempt ,if indeed that was the cause of the shots fired outside the room where the event is taking place.
I see no reason to believe any other reason he was willing to die or spend his life in prison. The most surprising thing was the cache of weapons he could smuggle into the hotel room. Not to make too light of the seriousness of this event, he was a mighty fast sprinter who may have qualified for the 100-meter dash in the Olympics.
 
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Had this event been at the white house, this guy wouldn't have even made it close to the building.
Perhaps but that would be true whether they have a big expensive ballroom or a bunch of tents on the South Lawn. I don’t see how this justifies the need for the ballroom and I think that facet actually fuels the conspiracy theories surrounding this incident.
 
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This would be the 3rd assassination attempt ,if indeed that was the cause of the shots fired outside the room where the event is taking place.
No shots were fired at Trump, and he hasn't been charged as such.
 
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